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Because vulnerability management has nothing to do with national security, right?

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[–] Australis13@fedia.io 298 points 1 month ago (8 children)

One can only conclude that either this is the latest step in a deliberate effort to sabotage the functioning of the US (and by extension much of the west), or just another monumentally stupid idea brought to life by their limitless incompetence.

[–] db2@lemmy.world 140 points 1 month ago

They're Russian puppets, both things are true.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 42 points 1 month ago (2 children)

us capitalism has nowhere else to expand. its eating itself now.

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[–] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 23 points 1 month ago

this is the latest step in a deliberate effort to sabotage the functioning of the US

You got that right.

[–] altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 month ago

I'm half-sure Trump put price tags on everything in the WH and every time you see a stupid thing in US foreign policy (local is guided by P25), you may hear Donald's OF donation bell ring.

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[–] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 170 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

CVE program – the centralized Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database of product security flaws

Just in case

Edit: I'm glad I wasn't the only one that didn't know. When the headline reads like everyone should know I felt a little dumb for a second.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 45 points 1 month ago

Thank you. I've never heard this acronym before, myself.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

thank you i was spaghetti walling and none of my backronyms were fitting

[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Fascinating series of words I've never heard before

[–] dalekcaan@lemm.ee 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Spaghetti walling - I think this is another way of saying "throwing things at the wall and seeing what sticks", my guess from the old wives tale that you can test the doneness of spaghetti by seeing if it sticks when thrown at a wall.

Backronym - an acronym that was made by first deciding what the finished acronym should be, then working backwards to decide what it should stand for. Usually used by NASA nerds to make cool sounding projects or by politicians to make evil shit sound friendly and benign.

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[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 119 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Ruzza just creamed their pants

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] msage@programming.dev 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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[–] Zirconium@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

North Korea too. Big win for them

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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 113 points 1 month ago (4 children)

On the bright side, at least our upcoming American cyberpunk dystopia is now more likely to feature a greater prevelance of lone wolf, broke, two bit hackers as a semi-viable lifestyle/'career path'...

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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 101 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Updated to add at 1700 UTC, April 16

In an 11th-hour reprieve, the US government last night agreed to continue funding the CVE program.

Not sure how much more whiplash I can take...

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 68 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They want us to all tune out. This is all by design so we don't know what's real or not anymore, then they can get away with even more and nobody will care.

This is what they've been doing for years and years, this is just more of the same.

[–] tehn00bi@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I’m not sure about “they” the US government, but it’s absolutely a Russian/ Authoritarian state playbook.

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[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 82 points 1 month ago

It’s not Uncle Sam, or the USA shutting this down. It’s the Republican Administration. They’ve been empowered by the Republican led Congress to shut down anything it doesn’t like, understand, or benefit from.

[–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 74 points 1 month ago (14 children)

REPUBLICANS. Not some nebulous "uncle sam". Republicans are turning off funding. They deserve 100% of the blame because they are 100% the cause.

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[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 69 points 1 month ago (4 children)

This has a CVE score of 10. The next Security Now podcast episode is going to be lit.

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[–] PlantPowerPhysicist@discuss.tchncs.de 67 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The EU needs to start planning now (well, really, needed to start planning in 2016) to replace every critical system that relies in any way on the US government.

If you think of money invested vs. return on government programs like this, the benefit is incredible. That it's being discontinued is obvious proof that the US is run by the agents of its own destruction and cannot be relied upon in any way: not as a supplier of military equipment, or information technology, or economic codependency.

[–] AcidicBasicGlitch@lemm.ee 16 points 1 month ago (3 children)

They're doing so much of this shit quietly, but when you start to put each piece together it should be frightening to anyone that doesn't believe Russia is our BFF.

In late Feb, just after the whole Zelenskyy White House visit, Hegseth issued an order to Cyber Command to halt all planning against Russia including cybersecurity offensive strategies.

He gave the order to Commander Timothy Haugh, who is also head of the National Security Agency. Haugh told the outgoing director of operations, and cyber command begun putting together an official document of why this is a very bad idea.

I missed this completely until yesterday, but it turns out that Haugh and his NSA deputy were both suddenly ousted from their positions less than 2 weeks ago.

No reason was given they were just told "your services are no longer required." Apparently Laura Loomer requested Trump have them removed and made some vague accusations against them bc they had been installed under Biden.

I admit I hadn't heard of CVE program before today. Since we are BFFs now and Russia is "totally not a threat" to the U.S., I guess it's supposed to be ok because friends share everything. But wouldn't this also make us incredibly more vulnerable to China and any other country?

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[–] OCATMBBL@lemmy.world 59 points 1 month ago (16 children)

We as a society need to start defining our damn acronyms. Stop assuming everyone knows what every acronym is, because they do not.

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[–] dan69@lemmy.world 58 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Adds cybersecurity to resume** Finally gets hired..

[–] entwine413@lemm.ee 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Good luck, I've been trying for 2 months and I was a senior engineer.

[–] dan69@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

Sorry to hear that, i wish you positive luck in the near future!

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[–] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 52 points 1 month ago

Right before Windows 10 loses security updates too, what a coincidence. Wonder what the Russians are working on...

[–] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 46 points 1 month ago

Can't wait until I don't have to upgrade software anymore!

[–] solarvector@lemmy.dbzer0.com 44 points 1 month ago

For most people the consequences of this action will be too far away to understand the connection, so it's a pretty good target for the US Republican party.

[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 38 points 1 month ago

I was, like, w-what CVE program. I don't know of any "CVE" programs that could be shut down, so I don't know what that abbreviation refers to.

Unless...

...oh no. Fuck. The actual CVE program? And they're just gonna- Shit.

What.

How.

I don't know how many times I've said "America is fucked" when reading the news lately, and I should stop doing that, because that fact has now been so well established that there's no need to elaborate.

[–] Rookeh@startrek.website 38 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

2017: covfefe

2025: cvefefe

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The Age of Fire is ending in America. The President is a Hollow working for Darkstalker Kaathe.

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[–] sinceasdf@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago (2 children)

False alarm

Updated to add at 1700 UTC, April 16 In an 11th-hour reprieve, the US government last night agreed to continue funding the CVE program.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] C45513@lemm.ee 11 points 1 month ago

stable geniuses

[–] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't think it's a false alarm, in the sense that it is totally reasonable to be alarmed. They are cutting crucial stuff before they know what it is. There are a lot of things being cut where we're only going to understand the impact years from now.

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[–] themurphy@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 month ago

Literally the rest of world against these fuckers soon.

[–] crowbar@kbin.earth 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

They dont want national security.

They want to steal your property and destroy the country so they can reform it in their image.

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[–] you_are_it@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 1 month ago

Are you guys free yet?

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

It’s because the entire administration is a vulnerability

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 15 points 1 month ago

Yes, this will end well. I wonder how the org will evolve from this or will another country pick it up... Will be interesting to see.

[–] j0ester@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

MAGA supporter: yup! Waste and fraud to me.

idiots!

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago
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